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Ask anyone you meet on the street (who's wearing bunny ears, an arrow through the head, and is barking at cars) what was the most important event of 1945?--Steve Martin's birth, of course! This informal and affectionate biography tells the complete story of Steve Martin's rise to the top as the king of zany comedy. Here are his early days memorizing every skit on The Red Skelton Hour, summers working in a magic show in Disneyland (where a program...
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In the roaring, topsy-turvy decades between the First and Second World Wars, the name Marilyn and the initials MM signified only one luminary - Marilyn Miller. She was Broadway's premiere musical star, the prized creation of the Great Glorifier, Florenz Ziegfeld, the star of Hollywood extravaganzas, and America's adored, delicately beautiful angel. Warren G. Harris's fascinating biography of this largely forgotten first Marilyn re-creates a gaudy...
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Moore's phenomenal television success and her private life are here examined affectionately, without the salacious tales common to celebrity bios. Bonderoff tells of her childhood in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, the start of her careerplugging refrigerators on the Ozzie and Harriet showher success on The Dick Van Dyke Show and in the series bearing her name. Moore is portrayed as a wholesome perfectionist who has had numerous personal and professional...
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This is the first biography to examine the legendary Lucille Ball in all her many dimensions: her personal struggles and the torments that forged a comic genius; and, at last, her posthumous influence on television comedy, on feminist scholars and cultural critics, and on the public at large. Ball of Fire is the definitive biography Lucy fans have been waiting for. Kanfer traces the arc of her career from its unlikely beginnings in a lonely and desolate...
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In January 1996, George Burns celebrated his 100th birthday. All wrapped up in nostalgia and love, this tribute to America's favorite centenarian is an in-depth look at George Burns's personal and professional life and nearly 100 years of show business -- from vaudeville to Vegas. From "Goodnight, Gracie" to his Oscar-winning performance in The Sunshine Boys, here is a toast to the celebrated straight man whose ability to keep us laughing seems virtually...
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In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such at Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; her television show that won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run; and the sorrows that she overcame with her irresistible humor.
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"The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers....
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The author describes her odyssey to Ghana in the 1960s, meant as a return to her African roots. Over a few years she transformed herself by learning to speak Fanti, dressing in Ghanian style and delving in politics. But after encountering racial prejudice and losing her son in a car crash, she returned to America.
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